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Political Parties
Comoros
- EnglishOther than the matters that are assigned to it by the other articles of the Constitution, the law establishes the rules concerning:
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– the regime of the associations and of the political parties as well as the status of the opposition;
… (Art. 89) - Arabicغير المسائل التي تسندها إليه المواد الأخرى في الدستور، يرسي القانون القواعد المتعلقة بـ:
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- نظام الجمعيات والأحزاب السياسية إلى جانب مركز المعارضة؛
... (المادة 89) - FrenchOutre les matières qui lui sont renvoyées par d’autres articles de la Constitution, la loi fixe les règles concernant:
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- le régime des associations et des partis politiques ainsi que le statut de l’opposition;
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Political Parties
Ghana
- English(1) The right to form political parties is hereby guaranteed.
(2) Every citizen of Ghana of voting age has the right to join a political party.
(3) Subject to the provisions of this article, a political party is free to participate in shaping the political will of the people, to disseminate information on political ideas, social and economic programmes of a national character, and sponsor candidates for elections to any public office other than to District Assemblies or lower local government units.
(4) Every political party shall have a national character, and membership shall not be based on ethnic, religious, regional or other sectional divisions.
(5) The internal organization of a political party shall conform to democratic principles and its actions and purposes shall not contravene or be inconsistent with this Constitution or any other law.
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Political Parties
Mozambique
- EnglishPolitical parties shall be prohibited from using names containing expressions that are directly related to any religious denominations or churches, and from using emblems that may be confused with national or religious symbols. (Art. 76)
- PortugueseÉ proibido o uso pelos partidos políticos de denominações que contenham expressões directamente relacionadas com quaisquer confissões religiosas ou igrejas ou a utilização de emblemas que se confundem com símbolos nacionais ou religiosos. (Art. 76)
Political Parties
South Africa
- EnglishTo enhance multi-party democracy, national legislation must provide for the funding of political parties participating in national and provincial legislatures on an equitable and proportional basis. (Sec. 236)
Political Parties
Myanmar
- EnglishA political party shall :
(a) accept and practise a genuine and discipline-flourishing multi-party democratic system;
(b) abide by and respect this Constitution and the existing laws;
(c) form and register as a political party in accord with the law. (Sec. 405) - Burmeseနိုင်ငံရေးပါတီတစ်ရပ်သည် -
(က) စစ်မှန်၍ စည်းကမ်းပြည့်ဝသော ပါတီစုံဒီမိုကရေစီစနစ်ကို လက်ခံကျင့်သုံးရမည်၊
(ခ) ဤဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေနှင့် တည်ဆဲဥပဒေများကို လေးစားလိုက်နာရမည်၊
(ဂ) နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီအဖြစ် ဥပဒေနှင့်အညီ ဖွဲ့စည်းမှတ်ပုံတင်ထားရမည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၄၀၅)
Political Parties
Zimbabwe
- English…
(2) The principles of good governance, which bind the State and all institutions and agencies of government at every level, include—
(a) a multi-party democratic political system;
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(d) respect for the rights of all political parties;
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Political Parties
Timor-Leste
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2. The State shall value the contribution of political parties for the organised expression of the popular will and for the democratic participation of the citizen in the governance of the country. (Sec. 7) - Tetum…
2. Estadu fó valór ba partidu polítiku sira-nia kontribuisaun atu povu hakatak-sai nia hakark rasik tuir organizasaun, no ba sidadaun nia partisipasaun demokrátiku iha hahalok ukun nian iha nasaun laran. (Art. 7) - Portuguese…
2. O Estado valoriza o contributo dos partidos políticos para a expressão organizada da vontade popular e para a participação democrática do cidadão na governação do país. (Art. 7)
Political Parties
Ecuador
- EnglishIn these elections, political organizations and alliances participating in the election of Assembly persons shall be entitled to submit candidacies.
Other political organizations are also entitled to submit candidacies, for which purpose they must show support based on a list of signatures accounting for one percent (1%) of the citizens on the corresponding voter registration list. To this end, the National Electoral Council shall provide the necessary forms.
The mum-persons candidacies shall be submitted in complete slates with principal candidates and their respective alternates. The slates shall be established in an egalitarian fashion with a sequence of woman, man or man, woman until the total number of candidates has been completed. (Transition System, Art. 4) - SpanishEn estas elecciones, las organizaciones políticas y alianzas que participaron en la elección de asambleístas podrán presentar candidaturas.
Podrán también hacerlo otras organizaciones políticas, para lo cual deberán presentar el uno por ciento (1%) de firmas de adhesión de los ciudadanos y ciudadanas del correspondiente registro electoral. Al efecto, el Consejo Nacional Electoral entregará los formularios necesarios.
Las candidaturas pluripersonales se presentarán en listas completas con candidatos principales y sus respectivos suplentes. Las listas se conformarán paritariamente con secuencia de mujer, hombre u hombre, mujer hasta completar el total de candidaturas. (Régimen De Transición, Art. 4)